Assistance with Chamber Marking 1916 DWM

GerColctor · 08-11-2018, 03:35 PM

Since it is chamber dated, it is obliviously started its life as government property and the Imperial military was not giving away pistols as prizes

It was marked after the war when there were a huge number of these surplus Lugers in storage, but also in former military member's homes. Many took their side arms home when the War suddenly ended, so there were a lot of these unaccountable weapons available during the Weimar Period.

08-11-2018, 03:35 PM	#18
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 318 Thanks: 2 Thanked 53 Times in 33 Posts	Since it is chamber dated, it is obliviously started its life as government property and the Imperial military was not giving away pistols as prizes It was marked after the war when there were a huge number of these surplus Lugers in storage, but also in former military member's homes. Many took their side arms home when the War suddenly ended, so there were a lot of these unaccountable weapons available during the Weimar Period. __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.